Schtasks Permission Error on Administrative User?

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Rezkin picture Rezkin · Feb 18, 2013 · Viewed 26.1k times · Source

I know this has been asked in different ways a few times, but nothing has helped me for my specific case.

This is all done on a Windows 7 Home Premium desktop computer through Windows Command Line. I was attempting to create a simple batch program using schtasks to open a bunch of programs automatically upon my logon. However, when I attempt to create the task it says that the access is denied for my batch file.

    schtasks /create /tn Startup /tr "C:\ComputerStartup.bat" /sc onlogin
    ERROR: Access is denied.

So I tried to give my authentication (I am running this as an administrator user).

    schtasks /create /s Jackson-HP /u Jackson /sc onlogon /tn Startup /tr C:\ComputerStartup.bat

It prompted for a password for my user. I don't have a password for my computer so I just pressed enter, and it said:

    ERROR: User credentials are not allowed on the local machine.

I'm not sure how to fix this. I'm still new to creating batch files, so I may be making a newbie mistake. I appreciate any help you can give, thanks.

Answer

gonzobrains picture gonzobrains · Jul 12, 2013

Try using an elevated (admin) command prompt and use the /ru command-line switch instead of the /u one. Use /rp if you want to specify the password as well.

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